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Racegoers are reminded of the “Fanling Hupt" steeplechase meet ing on Monday: Partlcular and train times are given in the adver- tinamente..
Mr. Verhomal Shuwarum, the proprietor of Messrs. Verhoma Shewaram & Co, and the Pioneer Silk Store, la dus to arrive in the Colony from India by the ... "Coblenz" to-morrow on a pleasure trip to China and Japan
The inhabitants of Kampong | A conference of Japanese Con- Balimbingan have called in the eula at Yangte porta "to" discuss help of the police against the some important questions relative hordes of gray apes which have to the revised Chinese tariff, la bo- killed three children within two ing held at the local Japanese Con- days, says a Medan report of sulate-General. May 3,
Submarino K1, the largest ves- Tokyo. May 10- Seiyunonto set of her type in the world, a sub- party member was arrested to-daymersible cruiser with a surface dis- Okaka. This followed upon the placement of 3,600 tons, has left publiefty given to the Osaka licens. Portsmouth for Gibraltar, and will ed quarters scandal! Reports say probably extend her cruise half- the,, Selyuhonto received thirty If the famous original Siam-thousand yen bribe through the way round the world. This trip is ese twins had lived they would hands of Mr. Takami. have grown into two beautiful women, according to Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, of the New York McCormick Institute. In Hygeia The publishes, for the first time, a record of the first post-mortem which was made to discover whether the single body had two souls.
Tokyo. May 12.-Superstition. | which sil prevals in the mural district of Japan, caused Sajujiro Hamade, a fisherman of Toyama Prefecture, to be fumigated to death by his wife. Hamude was suffering from mental afiction and His wife thinking him possessed of The devilish "Fix Spirit." bound' alm while he slopt, and subjected him to thorough fumigation with The man WAS sulphur fumes suffocated.
no doubt the first stage of an experimentar, voyage similar to that enrried out to Singapore and With the replanting in the pastback by submarine K26 in 1924, and winter of a wood burned down near will extend to about 20,000 miles. Fochabera, Scotland. seven years ago. the Duke of Richmond and Gordah "completes 4. ter. yearst scheme in which 1,000 acres in the vicinity of Gordon Castle have been planted with 5,000,000 young trees.
"Charged with circulating false rumours tending to injure the credit of the Oriental Cotton Mill andi Chan Liang-chung, and with incite ing persons: to commit a breach of Malaria has been on the increase the peace, two editors Ching Chien- in Kuala Lumpur lately, and the hwo and Chen Poo-lal, appeared at. public should be particularly cars, the Mixed Court, Shanghai, on May ful about tins, coconut shells, or 14 Messrs. H. D. Rodger, A. M. anything that may contain stagnantPreston, P. Premet and Covey ap- water. Bowls In which stand the peared for the accused. The legs of fe chests can" and do har- accused were remanded for one bour larvae unless disinfectant is week for the police to appear to added, or the water changed Tre-prosecute. quently.-Good advice for either Kuala Lumpur or Hongkong
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Chinese students once more find themselves in conflict with the A dog worth £12 an ounce of Minister of Education. The latter This weight-which was 2% bhas issued an order prohibiting Mr. Harry Burge, an old-age was one of the leading features of dramatic performances in schools, pensioner, of Milk Street Bath, the open show of the French complaining that the students have bwew his life to the pluck of a blind Bulldog Club of England, which turned themselves into actors and man named Sawyer, who sells post was held at the Horticultural Hall,actresses and oftentimes converted card's outside the abbey. The bad Westminster. This valuable ex- the school into a theatre. man. calling on Burge, found thehibit was a papilion or butterfly take pleasure in exhibiting them-. room full of smoke, He groped dog. named Piccolo de Flandeselves as men or women before the sound and fiscovered the old man and was shown by a London public, and "teasing each other Wing insensible with his clothes woman, Mrs. L. H. Stratton and quarrelling. This is against and hair on fire. Sawyer summonPiccolo is not quite three years the regulations, says the Minister and in future if his prohibition or der is disregardeu. the principal of the school will be held responsible.
ed help, but he had partially beaten old; but has already won two
himself the flames.
when challenge cups and forty-four first assistance arrived.
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Rather a heavy penalty was The construction of a three- imposed on a Chinese chauffeur ipmile tunnel underneath the Kanmon Progress: has already taken many the Shanghai Mixed Court when Strait, connecting Kyushu with the secular berties with the river Chuny Ts-sing was sent to prison | mainland of Japan, is to be started! Jordan, and now Lord Plumer has for twenty-one days. The evidence in ut probability in 1927, accord signed a concussion for the har- Beniat, the pecused was that he ing to a tentativa announcementnessing of its waters for electrie had failed to obey a traffic signal by the Railway Office. The cost is power. If the old rivalry still! and collided with a yelist, and estimated in the neighbourhood of survives, it may, at least count after the accident drove away,20,000,000. This tunnel
was. one up on Abana and Pharpar, Or without waiting to see the result of originally planned to be driven at it may be the other way. In these the accident. The accused said an estimated cost of Y15,000,000 days of increasing domination over that a funeral was passing ant the some years ago, but the great Kanto nature, is difficult for us to re- time and after it had passed he did catastrophe of 1923 proved a severe cover the old idea of a river as a not see the signal against him and setback to the project. But inas-wild creature with a life of its drove on as the road was clear. much as the daily freight carried own, impatient of interference, and The accident to the eyelist, with across the Struit amounts to 5.000 reseating even the "Indignity" of a whom he collided., apparently did tona,, representing, 400 carloads, the brigade. If a bridge is an affront, not matter and the sentence of the Railway Office Easy deciced that the what is an electric power station Court was 21 days.
time is ripe for expediting the work, but abject slavery?
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Capt. J. McAllister is leaving the Bangkok pilot service to join the Singapore pilot service. He is the fith skipper from. Bangkok to join the latter service, the others being the late Capt. Gray, the late Capt. T Robinson, Capt. G. D. Rushtont and Capt. B. A. Shepherd.
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Mr. F. K. Wilson has taken up the duties of Second Magistrate in Penang. Previously he was the Assistant. Registrar at Singapore, and for a while was in the Treasury Department, Penang,
The preacher at Union Church.. Thanghai on May 16 was the Rev..
In his annual report, the BritishW.. E Soothill M.A., Professor of Resident of Pahang. recorda that Chinese at Oxford University and
Mr. J. M. Davies, of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Honolulu, arrived at Shanghai from Japar Mr. Davies will confer with local organisations on the subject of promoting Letter relations between nations on the Pacific.
a discovery of considerable his a member of the British Boxer In-Japan yesterday, when the former torical interest was made at Pahang || demnity Commission. Tux in 1926. This was the finding
of the tomb of Muhammad Shah the
the
Tokyo, May 13-A special envoy of the Vatican was received, in audience by the Prince Regent, of
presented
message from Vatican. Interviewed by press re- Boasson and Van Overzee, Singa-presentatives the Roman envoy firat Sultan of Pahang. The in- pore, received a telegram on May 8 atated that the Vatican wished that scription on the tombstones mark-information them that their senior Japan would send a religious mini- ing his grave gives the date of his partner. Mr. J. B. Boasson, sud-ster to Rome... death as the 16th Jamed Al Awal denly passed away in Amsterdam. 1880 A.H which corresponds with Out of respect for the deceased, the September 17, 1475 A.D.
Singapore office was closed for the-John King, former Republican Bridgeport, Connecticut, May 19.
day. :
national committeeman, indicted with Harry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. MIler för attempting to defraud the government, is seriously 111 with pneumonia at hia home here. His physician said to day that his recovery was doubtfull
The "Times" of April 16 puh. Wishes the Easter Term results of
The death is announced of Mr. the Inns of Court bar examination, Thomas Burberry, at the ripe age and among them are two Malayan of 90 years. Mr. Burberry was the successes. Mr. Khoo Teck Ee. pioneer of the rainproof garment ot the Middle Temple, son of trade. He was a deeply religious Mr. Khoo Keng Hool, of Kuala man a non-smoker and teetotaller, Lumpur, has come out ninth in strong advocate of temperance, the list of 62 passes in the second and one of his hobbles was to buy class creditable performance. up licensed premises for conver Tunku Abdul Rahman, of the Inner
sion into teashops." Temple, son of H... the Yang di
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The following Shanghal Munici pal Council Committees have been duly constituted-Electricity. Com- mittee. Messrs. A. D. Bell, K per Juan Besar of Negri Sembilan, A farewell party was given on
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Foreign has gained a second-class in Roman April 24 at Paotingfu to severni par- Massey and J. Quin. Law and a third-class in Criminalsons who are leaving shortly for Education Committee.-Mr. A. D. America and Australia. Those who Bell, Mrs. A. D. Bowman, Mr. plan a visit to Amerlen include Rev. J. S. S. Cooper, Mrs. A. C. Green By the Blue Funnel "Patroclus" and Mrs. A. M. Cunningham, Miss And Mr. R. F. C. Master. Chlaesa Florence Logan and Misa. Education Committes. --- Messrs. there left Singapore Mr. F. G. ELaura Richards of the Presbyterian Chang Niehyun, Chichen Nieh, Williams, who severs his connec-
Mission; Rev. and Mrs. Elmer W. R. E. S. Gregson and J. J. Paterson, tion with the Municipal electricalalt and three children, American and Rev. G. W. Sheppard. Band department after fourteen years Board Mission; Rev. and Mrs. Committee.-Dr. W. J. Zsenman Williams, whose cheery personality Francis M. Price of the American Brig. General Macnaghten and Mr. and wido popularity are well:
Board Mission will also leave beV. Meyer. known, carries with him the good fore long for America but do not wishes of a host of friends espe
intend to return.
Hankow, May 8-The German cially those connected with the
community sustained a loss undar work of the Church of England in That youthful-looking Minister, tragic circumstances in the early that Settlement, During his term Major the Hon. W... Ormsby Goro hours of Wednesday morning in the here, saya the "Free Presa," Mr. celebrated his forty-first birthday person of Mr G. Scheithauer, son Williams has been a keen volunteer, in East Africa, where he is taking of Mr. H. Scheithauer, a valued pers member of the 'Cathedral choi one of his official tours as Under-vant of the Kalles Gung Tse. It house mastor of St. Andrews—¡ Colonial Secratary. Despite the appears to be one of those inex where he did an excellent work advantages which accrue from being plicable mysteries of the personal Amongst the boys-Sunday Schout the son and heir of Lord Harlech value of human life, sacrificed for teacher, Secretary of the C.B.M.S. and son-in-law of Lord Salisbury, a mere trifle through Inability to and member of the Parochial "The Traveller, as he is known tu faca moderate and kindly censure. Council, bringing to each energy is intimates, is a most painstaking Young Scheithauer seems to have and enthusiasm. The Choir met Minister who should have a useful mixed himself up with somewhat. at a farewell tennia party given by career in front of him if he can undesirable company and to have the Archdeacon at which occasion only postpone the evil day when ran into debt and rather than go was taken to bid Mr. Williams fire- he will have to pay the penalty of | to the natural sourse for the solu“. well and to present him with a gold an elder son relegation to the | tion of his difficultius he took his wrist watch.
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